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neshness

neshness noun: the condition of being nesh.

Noun

neshness (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialectal) The condition of being nesh.
    • I should be inclined to think it was from general neshness of constitution.1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Chapter 41

Origin of neshness

From nesh + -ness.

Questions about neshness

What does neshness mean?
Neshness means the condition of being nesh.
What part of speech is neshness?
Neshness is a noun.

Words near neshness in the dictionary

  1. neshing
  2. Neshki
  3. neshly
  4. Neshnabé
  5. Neshnabémwen
  6. neshness
  7. Neshoba
  8. Neshoba County
  9. Nesian
  10. Nesians
  11. nesidioblast

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